NIRA to recruit 11000 workers for ID renewal exercise

By Francis Lubega

16^th Jan 2023

The National Identification and Registration Authority -NIRA is set to employ over 11000 temporary staff to carry out the country wide national identity card renewal exercise which is starting mid this year.

The revelation has been made by the NIRA Manager Registration Edwin Tukamuhebwa while speaking to the parliamentary journalists during the breakfast meeting on social protection organized by the parliamentary forum on social protection.

Tukamuhebwa noted that the renewal exercise is going to be conducted on both parish and village levels as it was formally and the process will be for free for the period of eight months.

He says that during the renewal exercise they are also going to capture both people’s finger prints and eyelashes mainly because specific categories like the elderly people and casual laborers lose some of the features needed on their IDs which made NIIRA produce some IDs without figure prints.

The renewal exercise will start in August 2023 up to August 2025, targeting 17.2 million citizens who have never been registered and 20 million Ugandans who wish to renew their National IDs.

The first batch of 15.8 million identity cards that were printed and issued in the 2014/2015 will expire between August 2024 and June 2025, thus justifying the need for renewal in accordance with Regulation 19(1) of the Registration of Persons Regulations SI 67 /2015.